MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) (MS-7760)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (29th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 71 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	40.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7760
Motherboard	MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) (MS-7760) (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs, 1600 x 1200 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111014
Uptime	8.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 09 '17 at 04:43
Run Duration	389 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	75.1% Very good	Memory 88.4 1-Core 83.4 2-Core 167 67% 113 Pts	4-Core 334 8-Core 518 53% 426 Pts	64-Core 638 40% 638 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 680-$360 38,995 User benchmarks, average bench 32% EVGA(3842 2682) 2GB CLim: 1293 MHz, MLim: 1552 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 378.66 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 29% Great: 35%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 159GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 582 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 89 (A5) Unknown 100 100 7471195 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 72 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 228 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 14 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 64 274879217693 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 111670984732 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 475 (EA) Unknown 100 100 940 (F1) Unknown 253 253 828 (F2) Unknown 253 253 821 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	40.3% Average	Read 259 Write 151 Mixed 167 42% 192 MB/s	4K Read 14.9 4K Write 13.9 4K Mixed 11.5 45% 13.4 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 42.6 64% 122 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 40.3% Great: 101%
Corsair Force LE 480GB-$277 5,507 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 37GB free Firmware: SAFC12.1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3770 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 362 (A2) Unknown 100 100 347 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65542 (AE) Unknown 100 100 33 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 33 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 951 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1716	62.6% Good	Read 507 Write 338 Mixed 351 88% 399 MB/s	4K Read 16 4K Write 14.9 4K Mixed 8.85 44% 13.3 MB/s	DQ Read 264 DQ Write 132 DQ Mixed 48.3 76% 148 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 100%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 8GB free Firmware: 1.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16601 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1773 (E8) Unknown 100 100 47265430507 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0	55.5% Above average	Read 426 Write 193 Mixed 249 64% 289 MB/s	4K Read 15.7 4K Write 23.2 4K Mixed 15.7 56% 18.2 MB/s	DQ Read 253 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 78.4 95% 167 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 951GB free Firmware: HP34 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 95 395216 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3479 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 1456 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 63852179 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12810 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1255 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1700945871 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 90 90 10 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 76 56 437452824 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 676 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 47 47 106477 (C2) HDA temperature 24 44 64424509464 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 1456 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 128 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 160 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 55% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 951GB free Firmware: HP34 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4349512 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3290 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 61198180 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12721 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1255 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1851362382 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 58 437452823 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 649 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 60 60 81072 (C2) HDA temperature 23 42 68719476759 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 55% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 643GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 25707580 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 12024 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 167373307 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16513 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2335 (B7) Unknown 94 94 6 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65549 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 59 454230040 (C2) HDA temperature 24 41 64424509464 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 27 25707580 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 101515847034678 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3465133412 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2278384095	47.7% Average	Read 101 Write 65.6 Mixed 67.2 58% 77.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.28 72% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 68%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 203GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 170 6333 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 760 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5348 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 531 (10) Unknown 5 195 89039924756 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 83 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 676 (C2) HDA temperature 121 99 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	69.9% Good	Read 119 Write 125 Mixed 108 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.28 114% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 112%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 32GB 6,329 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 26GB free, PID 1665 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	5.76% Terrible	Read 21.5 Write 6.04 Mixed 6.56 12% 11.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.51 4K Write 0.009 4K Mixed 0.4 34% 1.98 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.76% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 4x4GB 447 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	MC Read 33.8 MC Write 34.1 MC Mixed 31.2 94% 33 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 11.3 SC Mixed 11.3 34% 12.1 GB/s	Latency 69.2 58% 69.2 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 100%

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Gaming 28%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 24%

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Motherboard: MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) (MS-7760) - $342

CPU
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	47x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	42x
Core i7-3930KIntelBench 77%, 4,060 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	14x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	14x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	7x
240GB 240GBKingmaxBench 72%, 2,389 samples	6x

RAM
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 41%, 1,091 samples	5x
HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GBKingstonBench 80%, 411 samples	5x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	5x

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Value: 52% - Above average

Total price: $920

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16